I know this has been posted several times before. Lots of posts about it, and lots of [status-complete].

This image shows a default recent activity duration of 8 minutes and 49 seconds. I had not clicked any page in the SE network for 7ish hours. (unless I sleep-surfed the net.)

This image shows a duration of 6 seconds!! I'd been browsing SO and other sites in the network, but hadn't clicked a page on SO in several minutes (though I can't verify the times on this one).

Is it something in the way I'm browsing the SE network? Could it be that I have the Stack Overflow Notifier extension and that is conflicting? I did disable it for awhile but still had issues with the duration.

I've got almost a day on my Gaming envelope; if I were to click on it again, it would then reset to right now. I would guess that it is some app or extension which is causing this to reset for you without you actually visiting the page. That, or maybe you are sleep-surfing.
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Grace Note♦Sep 29 '10 at 16:35

@Grace, I still see the issue with my extension disabled. I had not viewed the recent activity page 6 seconds ago when that was the duration it showed me.
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Rebecca ChernoffSep 29 '10 at 16:38